Chatsworth

[The Tea Boy]

A few from Sunday at chatsworth house. C+C wanted please....
























All other photos can be found here
As you can tell i have not done anything to the photos but would like to know what should be done other than straightening up on a few of them which i will do in picassa, but other than that i do not know where to start!!

Regards
Matt

Edited by The Tea Boy on Tuesday 28th April 11:41

[andy-xr]

Are you right handed?

[The Tea Boy]

andy-xr said:

Are you right handed?

yes but technically no*!! why?

• Im naturally left handed and do a few things LH eg playing snooker cricket etc but when i were a child i was taught to write RH as its difficult to teach people to write LH (apparently)

[madbadger]

I never realised there was a house there, too!

[andy-xr]

I'm only messing

- #5's more interesting if you move to the right of where you were. You wouldnt get the radiator in from there, and if you look how the light hits just before the subject, and where the shadow is falling, it can light it up quite nicely. Combine that with some aperture abuse and you'd have a lovely photo

Edit - I looked at your host page for #5 and noticed in your EXIF you shot 1/300 @ F4. If you havent edited these yet, that seems a little soft and OOF. Care to share more about the setting up of that one?


- #10 I think would benefit from a soap box, a zoom and about 15/20 steps backwards. You could blur out the background post shot if you wanted, but I think it needs more seperation

Edited by andy-xr on Tuesday 28th April 12:26

Edited by andy-xr on Tuesday 28th April 13:01

[jasmine]

I think the fountain looks a tad washed out? But I'm not too good at this sort of thing. I only say picked on that picture as I really like it. Especially without the people!

[Don]

I'm no expert - but make sure when you take a landscape shot that the horizon is level. Out by even a little and the whole image becomes slightly disconcerting.

Honestly - some tripods come with a spirit level in them to help! To me, at least, a couple of your wide shots of the house are "leaning" a little...

[Don]

D'oh - you knew that. That'll teach me to read properly!

[The Tea Boy]

Don said:

D'oh - you knew that. That'll teach me to read properly!

I had been using the tripod on a few shots but its such a crappy thing it doesnt take the weight of the camera that well!! but as said will use picassa to sort it when i have time

Matt

[andy-xr]

The Tea Boy said:

C+C wanted please....

• cough*

andy-xr said:

I looked at your host page for #5 and noticed in your EXIF you shot 1/300 @ F4. If you havent edited these yet, that seems a little soft and OOF. Care to share more about the setting up of that one?

[The Tea Boy]

andy-xr said:

The Tea Boy said:

C+C wanted please....

• cough*

andy-xr said:

I looked at your host page for #5 and noticed in your EXIF you shot 1/300 @ F4. If you havent edited these yet, that seems a little soft and OOF. Care to share more about the setting up of that one?

It was shot in A mode and the room was actually really dark, it was also handheld so i would guess that is the 'softness/wobblyness'? Does that make sense? i dont really change many of the settings other than 'F' so its just taken as the camera wishes lol

Matt

Edited by The Tea Boy on Tuesday 28th April 14:12

[andy-xr]

Ah, I misread your EXIF data.

It was a 1.3 second shot @ F4 not 1/300ths

ISO was 100 still though, I'm guessing that you couldnt really go lower than F4 with the lens, it might have been worth getting more ISO in there, as far as you can realistically go without masses of noise

[Simpo Two]

andy-xr said:

It was a 1.3 second shot @ F4 not 1/300ths

Bloody hell, 1.3 seconds handheld - the man is a human tripod!

[andy-xr]

I've got that horribly wrong again havent I?

So Matt, shoot me in the head or tell us the exposure time! Phtobuckets too complicated for me

[The Tea Boy]

Ok guys just check the data on my hard copy file and it was 1.3secs!!! (does that mean im good????)

Matt

[andy-xr]

I knew it!

You've done well to hold that still. I couldnt do it and I'd be twitchy about anything over half a second causing blur. The photo does suit being a bit soft, but I think I'd rather add softness to a sharp photo than add sharpness to bring something back again

You've shot at ISO 100, which I'm guessing is from when you were outside? It might be worth looking at Auto ISO if and only if you're not going to remember to change it from going inside after being outside in high ambient light. Increasing the ISO to around 600 on the aperture setting you'd chosen (with the camera choosing the shutter speed) would have brought the exposure time down, meaning it wouldnt be quite so soft. The trade off would be increased noise, so a middle ground would be a tripod shot

[Simpo Two]

When faced with low light the mental flowchart goes something like this:

Bugger, low light.
A) Can I use flash, ie is it appropriate for the task or environment?
A1) Yes - use flash
A2) No - you'll have to use ambient light. Go to (B).

B) What's my maximum aperture? Will it give me the DOF I want?
B1) Yes. Go to D)
B2) No. Go to C)

C) Choose an aperture that will give you sufficient DOF.

D) Frame up and check the resulting shutter speed. Is it fast enough to hand hold?
D1) Yes - take the shot.
D2) No - crank up ISO until you get a useable shutter speed (bearing noise issues in mind) OR use a tripod if the subject is static.


With practice you'll be able to work through all that in about 1 second

[The Tea Boy]

Thanks for everyones help, this is why i love it in here so much!! thank you all so much, i will keep playing and maybe get it right one day!!

Also only just noticed the editing done on the pic of the water, so thanks for that it does look alot better with the people 'erased'

Matt